[Fedora-livecd-list] Some questions from a livecd newer

[Pollux Su]

Hi tim:
   Thanks for your reply.I have build a livecd using
livecd-fedora-8-base-desktop.ks file. There were more than 500 packages
installed. If I adopt you approach to build the firefox livecd, it's too
hard to minimize the iso file. I don't have idea to decide that which
packages I need to remove or save and which  services were not  necessary.
I just want to open a firefox browser  when the system was booted. No login
UI, no external service,no... just a clean desktop with a firefox browser.
I thought it would be a little hard,but it seems very hard.

Who can give me some suggestion?Any help will be appreciative.

best regards
thanks



On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Tim Wood <tim.wood at datawranglers.com>wrote:

>  Pollux, if you look through the kickstarts that are included, you'll find
> a minimal kickstart.  Do not use that as your starting point because the
> login is disabled.  You probably want to start with the minimal desktop.
> Make sure that builds for you.  Then, make a copy in the same directory.
> Remove one or two packages you're sure you don't need.  For instance, open
> office.  Then build another ISO.  If that works, duplicate your kickstart
> and repeat the process.  When you get a kickstart that doesn't work, go back
> to the last one that worked and try again.
>
> The kickstart file itself is very similar to the one used for automated
> installs of RedHat.  If you do a google search, you should be able to find
> RedHat's kickstart documentation (hint, make site:redhat.com part of your
> google search).
>
> The simplest way to find out what a package does is to pull up a terminal
> on a fedora system and have yum tell you.  If you wanted to know what
> anaconda is:
> > yum search anaconda
>
> Tim
>
>
> Pollux Su wrote:
>
> Hi,all friends:
>     I was assigned a linux livecd task,but I am not familiar with linux. I
> have finished a simple fedora livecd following the basic information I got
> from here. Now,I have to build a minimal livecd with firefox, I think I want
> to write ks file by myself base on kde ks file and add a firefox package.
> But this iso file is very large for me. How can I do?
>    Thanks for your time? Where can I find the details of package which I
> have to install and remove when I build a minimal firefox livecd.
>
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